PAIN On Blu-Ray Disc

Hi guys. I’m Joey, the SCEE Product Manager for PAIN . I’m really excited to tell you that we’ll be releasing all the best and most painful bits of PAIN PS3 on Blu-ray disc next week.

Every environment, such as Downtown, Movie Studios, Abusement Park and Sore Spots, will be included so you can fling your chosen victim into Tanks, Cannons or even exploding teddy bears for massive combo scores by creating as much PAIN as possible.

Speaking of victims: Jarvis, Tati, Ginger and Cookie will be there, and keep a look out for the Ded Baron as you play through PAIN Darts, Mime Toss, Fortress, Spank the Monkey (Those damn, dirty apes!) and the other crazy game modes.

We’re also adding in the great PAIN labs, where new developer-created, beta-style levels will be made available for free from Idol Minds on a weekly basis.

PAIN PS3 will be out on Wednesday 24 June in Europe, 25 June in Australia and New Zealand, and the UK and Ireland on Friday 26 June for €24.99/£19.99. More pictures of the levels and characters are in our Flickr account.

Nice idea, but I already bought PAIN when it was on sale over Christmas, although it this is probably a better value way of getting all the expansion packs included for those that haven’t tried it yet.

To be honest I think it’s the sort of game that suits being on the HDD, it’s not something I can imagine playing when I was looking for a disc based game to load. But I know some people don’t like digital content or can’t even access it if they don’t have a credit card or live in Hungary etc so it’s good that more people will have the opportunity to play it.

Good news! I’ve held off buying this game since I was waiting for an all-in-one package like this (either download or disc). Having it on disc is ideal as I’m sure the online retailers will discount it before long (and I couldn’t see that happening all the time the PlayStation store had it as an exclusive).

Great news, this sure is tempting to pick up! Awesome to release it on Blu-Ray since I and a lot of folks don’t have a Credit Card so this way we can finally expierence Pain and it’s difficult trophies ;)!

Hey Joey,
Great that it’s coming to blu-ray so everyone can play it
But I have oné question!
Here in The Netherlands every webshop and retailer is saying that Sony gives Pain an price tag from €29,99. IS it a mistake in your blogg post (€24,99) or do we have to pay a little more in The Netherlands?

This is great news! I hope this happens with more lovely PSN games so that our HDD doesn’t get even fuller (only 500mb left here, looking for new one). This would be good with Wipeout + Fury expansion as well as the whole PixelJunk serie when Shooter comes out.

yowsa..its £17.99 on play.com, well preordered now along with a Monster Hunter Freedom Unite PSP 3000 bundle, ooohh next week is gonna be so cool….I am glad they did this…I dont like digital downloads ( I own a 360 too and see that GTA4 DLC is coming to disc so will be picking that instead of downloading, I downloaded Op anchorage for Fallout 3 so I am bit annoyed as its coming to disc too) I prefer physical media…Wipeout HD would be great, I got a PSP 2000 (for my son) and got Wipeout Pulse today and that rocks…so been thinking about the HD download, think I will hang on, they might put it out on BD, yowsa…:)

I would not begrudge supporting the product further to allow me to easily move my ‘investment’ between PS3 consoles, but I was just curious what was actually going to be included & playable directly from a disc-based version.

Congratz on making your way to a disc. I’m sure there is a bunch of kids waiting to get this game. Some children without techsavy parents don’t connect the ps3 to the internet, even less willing to flip out their credit card and pay online.

…. im not sure whether to be really happy, or really ticked off, i would much rather this on disc to save a lot of memory, but ive bought Pain a looong time ago, and have had the expansions and characters (not all)…..so no hope of me getting any money back

For a long time now I have been really interested in this title, however since it is a rather unique concept and one-of-a-kind I am not entirely sure if it is my thing. Is there any chance that you could release a PSN playable demo around the same time as the Blu-ray release so that users like me can get a feel for the gameplay before potentially buying the full game? It would be much appreciated.

Many thanks for releasing it on disk, cause there is no PS Store in Hungary right now. Can’t wait to play the game! By the way, it WILL be released in Hungary (you know, the little country with huge plains and goulash soup in Central Europe), won’t it?

Just got it and it requires a 1gb install, which is annoying as to have it downloaded from the PSN store is also about 1gb. So no luck with freeing up hard disc space! I suppose the only advantage is that it’s marginally quicker and easier to install it from the disc than it is to download it.

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